Innovation in Design - Attached Housing in Riverside Park  The Riverside Park neighbourhood is noteworthy as it has a number of noteworthy designs for attached housing. One area that I am working exploring more is how ideas from Mid-Century Modern (MCM) detached houses were translated into attached housing. Key hallmarks of the MCM style include open concept designs, large windows for indoor-outdoor connection and use of innovative materials of the time. This was often translated into bungalow (ranch house) designs that accentuated the horizontal, and made possible by the suburban locations of these houses. So, how could these ideas be translated into houses that are attached, such as semi-detached and town houses? Below are some examples from Riverside Park/Mooney's Bay that highlight innovative ideas that made attached housing as luxurious...if not more so...than detached housing. I will highlight examples up to the 1980s in this area. RIDGEWOOD Ridgewood is one of the earliest a...

A while ago a reader asked about a plan in the Country Place neighbourhood. I do not know too much about the neighbourhood, but I do have some collections of plans for houses built in the area by the builders Simpson and Sherbrooke. I believe that the Simpson homes were built first, followed by later phases by Sherbrooke. The lot sizes are large, so most of the designs are centre-hall plans.  If any of my readers know more about the area please do share in the comments section below. Here are all of the plans that I have for the area, but it appears that others were built as well. Some of the Simpson plans were also built in the Playfair Park area of the city.